README
Jetson Leder-Luis
April, 2023
"Can Whistleblowers Root Out Public Expenditure Fraud? Evidence from Medicare"
Review of Economics and Statistics


DataSetup.do makes a panel of outpatient spending, op_100pct_clean_botox.dta 

Next, GrowthGroups.do finds ones that were growing comparably to botox, growthgroups.dta 

Next, LeadLag.do produces the growthgroupspanel and then fits leads and lags

Next, SynthControlwithShift.do runs time-shifted synthetic control

Finally, DeterrenceMeasurement.do computes deterrence and produces graphs

Placebo.do repeats the steps for placebo in /placebos

robustness/forwardonly contains a copy of growthgroupspanel.dta, implements all of this using forward-only shifts, starting with the same control groups

Robustness/feout implements all of this removing fixed effects, starting with the same control groups

Robustness/flatline and robustness/linear implement simple projections

